This really is beautiful. I love reading your cirque posts.
It is a cultural thing, by the way, all of the terseness and the surliness. Your Russians would not consider me to be Russian. I speak Russian and I was born in the Soviet Union, but as far as they're concerned, I'm an overeducated Baltic Jew raised by snobby intelligencia.
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Date: 2008-08-29 04:48 pm (UTC)This really is beautiful. I love reading your cirque posts.
It is a cultural thing, by the way, all of the terseness and the surliness. Your Russians would not consider me to be Russian. I speak Russian and I was born in the Soviet Union, but as far as they're concerned, I'm an overeducated Baltic Jew raised by snobby intelligencia.